Fux/Fuks/Fuchs Family Genealogy

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Surnames of those in my direct ancestral line appear in BOLD.

Descendants of Szymon Fuks

1 Szymon Fux
..+ Jenta (unknown)
........ 2 Judka Fux b: Abt. 1793 in Poland d: Sept. 8, 1838 in Piaski, Poland
.......... + Fajga Cipa (unknown) b: unknown d: Abt. 1825 in Poland
.................. 3 Sanel Judka Fuks b: Abt. 1811 in Krylow (lived in Rejowiec) m: Feb. 4, 1830 in Swierze d: 1847 in Rejowiec
...................... occupation: worker
......................+ Chaja (Haja) Bluma Katz (Kac) b: Abt. 1809 in Swierze, Poland d: unknown
....................… Note: As of Feb. 4, 1830 (when they were married), Lejb Kac, her dad, was alive; Chana, her mom, had passed.
............................... 4 Szymon/Szymel Fuks b: Sept. 5, 1833 in Swierze d: 1863-1864 in Krasnystaw, Poland
.................................. occupation: peddler
.................................. + Ester Hudes Szok b: 1836 in Krasnystaw m: 1852 in Krasnystaw d: Aft. 1860
..................................... [See below for additional information on this family line.]
............................... 4 Chana Fajga Fuks b: unknown d: 1836 in Swierze, Poland
............................... 4 Jenta Fux b: 1836 in Swierze, Poland d: Aft. 1857
.................................. + Mendel Dawid Bergman b: 1832-1836 in Izbica, Poland m: July 1, 1857 in Izbica d: 1904 in Izbica
............................................... 5 Szymon Bergman b: Abt. 1863 in Izbica, Poland d: unknown
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............................... 4 Hena Fuks b: 1846 in Rejowiec, Poland d: unknown
.................. 3 Estera Fuks
.................. 3 Icek Tuwia Fux b: 1811-1825 in Piaski Luterskie m: 1848 in Zamosc, Poland d: 1902 in Zamosc, Poland
......................+ Fayga Bekierman
............................... 4 Drejzla Fux b: unknown d: 1856 in Zamosc, Poland
............................... 4 Sura Kajla Fuks b: 1858 in Zamosc, Poland d: 1860 in Zamosc
............................... 4 Gitla Fuks b: 1861 in Zamosc, Poland d: unknown
............................... 4 Lejb Fuks b: 1877 in Zamosc, Poland d: unknown
............................... 4 Jochwet Fuks b: 1877 in Zamosc, Poland d: unknown
............................... 4 Brucha Fuks b: Abt. 1854 in Zamosc m: 1874 in Zamosc d: unknown
.................................. + Dawid Fuks (son of Josef and Sura) b: in Biskupice, Poland d: unknown
..........*2nd wife of Judka Fux:
.......... + Cypa Cymet
.................. 3 Sura Gitla Fux b: 1826 in Krylow, Poland d: 1827 in Krylow
.................. 3 Rucha Laja Fix b: 1831 in Swierze, Poland d: 1834 in Piaski
.................. 3 Szymon Fuks b: 1834 in Piaski, Poland d: 1837 in Piaski
.................. 3 Jenta Fuks b: 1835 in Piaski, Poland d: unknown
.................. 3 Dawid Fux b: unknown (lived in Biskupice near Piaski)
......................+ Sura (unknown)

Descendants of the Szymon Fuks (great-grandson)

1 Szymon Fuks b: Sept. 5, 1833 in Swierze, Poland d: 1863-1864 in Krasnystaw, Poland
.. occupation: peddler
.. + Hudes Szok b: 1836 in Krasnystaw, Poland m: 1852 in Krasnystaw, Poland d: Aft. 1860 in Poland
........ 2 Chana Fuks b: 1855 in Krasnystaw, Poland d: 1856 in Krasnystaw, Poland
........ 2 Chaim Sanel Fuks b: 1857 in Krasnystaw, Poland d: unknown
........ 2 Szloma Fuks (also spelled Szlema/Szlama) b: 1860 in Krasnystaw, Poland d: Bef. 1925 in Zamosc, Poland
……… occupation: hatmaker
.......... + Sura Ruchla Brumer b: Abt. 1859 in Zamosc, Poland m: Abt. 1878 d: Abt. 1934 in Zamosc, Poland
.................. 3 Fejbush "Fajwel" Fuks b: 1878 in Krasnystaw d: 1941/1942 at Komarow, Poland
......................+ Frajdel "Frida" Schwarzberg/Shwarcberg b: 1881 in Zamosc, Poland d: 1941/1942 at Komarow, Poland
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Notes on Fajwel and Frijda Fuks:
.............Faivel Fuks was a successful loan agent and merchant in Zamosc. Prior to the war, he rented out a vacant carpentry shop. Most of his property was in the old part of the city of Zamosc. The Zamosc Yizkor book lists his address as "Plac Mickiewcza #14", 14 Mickiewicz Street.
.............In the summer of 1941, a ghetto was set up in Komarow, and the Jews were forced into it. According to the Zamosc Judenrat List, Fajwel and his wife both died at Komarow. On May 23, 1942, the dismantling of the ghetto began, and that very day many of its inhabitants, mainly from other localities, were sent to the extermination camp at Belzec. In October and November, the Jews of the ghetto were annihilated; most of them were shot on the spot and the others were sent to Belzec. Only a handful of Jews managed to escape.
.............The Belzec Concentration Camp operated between March 17, 1942 and June 31, 1943. Between 430,000 and 500,000 Jews are believed to have been killed at Belzec, along with an unknown number of Poles and Romanians. My grandmother's aunt and uncle (Fajwel and Frajdel) were murdered at Komarow.
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.................. 3 Szymon Fuks b: Abt. 1881 in Krasnystaw, Poland d: June 20, 1901 in Zamosc, Poland
..................... witnesses to death: Jankiel Gershoner/Tetkotter (sp?) and Gersz Sobol
.................. 3 Fajga Fuks b: Aug. 23, 1883 in Zamosc, Poland d: 1888 in Zamosc, Poland
..................... witnesses to birth: Szlemy Herszon, 66; Lejby Sobol, 48, both merchants
.................. 3 Szejndla Fuks b: Aug. 4, 1886 in Zamosc, Poland d: 1888 in Zamosc, Poland
..................... witnesses to birth: Josef Edelman, 45, merchant; Moszko Guberman, age 60
.................. 3 Gerszon Fuks b: 1889 in Zamosc, Poland d: Jan. 7, 1976 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
......................+ Chana Czesner b: Aug. 14, 1894 in Chelm, Poland d: 1962 in Berdichev, Ukraine
Notes on Gershon and Chana Fuks:
.............Chana Czesner Fuks is buried at the old cemetery in Berdychiv, Ukraine, the same place where the Berdichever Rebbe rests.
.............Gershon Fuks served in the Russian army prior to 1918. He was a capmaker (gittelmacher) by trade. He survived the war in the former Soviet Union (Ukraine) and immigrated to the U.S. in May, 1975. He is buried at Agudas Achim Cemetery in Cudahy, Wisconsin.
............................... 4 Chaja Tova "Tauba" Fuks b: Sept. 10, 1917 in Zamosc, Poland (still living)
.................................. + Szymon "Srul" Krochmalnik b: 1914 in Dubno, Ukraine d: May 1945 in Berlin, Germany
.............................................. 5 Bujna Krochmalnik b: 1940 in Ukraine d: 1940 in Ukraine
.................................. *2nd Husband of Chaja Tova "Tauba" Fuks:
.................................. + Judah Aryeh Biterman b: Dec. 6, 1904 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: Aug. 30, 1975 in Milwaukee, WI
.............Prior to the war, Tauba Fuks may have lived at Zarwanica Street in Zamosc. She grew up at Ogrodowa 7 in New Zamosc. In October, 1939, at Tauba's urging, the Fuks family left Zamosc and headed across the Bug River to Volodymyr-Volynsky in the present-day Ukraine, and then to the city of Zapatna. The family was subsequently directed to go to Dubno, Ukraine due to overcrowding. At that time, they began living with another family, the Krochmalniks, which consisted of a mother and three brothers (Mikhael, Srulik, and Chaim). Michael was the oldest brother, born circa 1911. Srul (Szymon) was born circa 1914.
.............In 1940, Tauba married Srul Krokhmalnik. It was a very difficult time and both families were impoverished. Tauba spent her honeymoon alone, sleeping on a table in the family home. Soon after, everyone except Mrs. Krochmalnik and her youngest son Chaim left to go further east to Russia because there was more freedom there and they needed to find work. After they left, Mrs. Krochmalnik sent for her son and begged him to return home. Srul returned with his new wife Tauba and his brother Michael. Soon after Tauba returned, she and Srul welcomed their first child, Bujna, born in 1940. Unfortunately the joy was not long-lasting. Srul was called away to serve in the Russian army and Tauba never saw him again. Tauba's mother and sister Bella came to Dubno and begged her to return with them, but she did not because of her husband and daughter. Unfortunately, her daughter passed away at age 3 months. She was not healthy from the start and the poverty level surrounding Tauba was too great to sustain an infant. Tauba later learned that her husband died around 1945 when the Russian Army deployed him to Berlin to fight the Germany Army.
.............In mid-1941, Tauba began working at a restaurant in Dubno. The manager of the restaurant was a man named Mr. Kucharowicz. She established a business relationship with him. Soon after, she was confined to the Dubno ghetto, beginning in the spring of 1942. She, like other ghetto inhabitants, wore two yellow stars (one on the front, one on the back) and a Star of David. Soon after, she heard a rumor that those without an occupation in the Dubno ghetto would be killed. Her mother-in-law and her young son Chaim Krochmalnik met this fate. They were shot execution-style, as were thousands of others in the Dubno ghetto. Tauba spoke German. She proposed to an authority a novel idea: open a laundry shop for those in the ghetto. The location of this shop was placed outside of the ghetto, so each day, she -- unlike other Jews -- was allowed out of the ghetto.
.............One day she approached Mr. Kucharowicz and begged him to help her escape the ghetto, and he did. Mr. Kucharowicz may have been called Stan or Stanislaw. He gave Tauba the identity papers and rosaries of his wife, Maria, and he drove her to the middle of no where in Ukraine. That night she slept under a tree. When she awoke in the morning, she asked German soldiers where she was. She was on the border between Dubno and Polesie in modern Ukraine (then Poland). The nearest large city was Ternopol, and she made her way there and worked for several weeks there. Tauba was suspicious that people would realize she was Jewish. With nothing but a recommendation paper from her boss, she went on a train without a destination. She met a Polish girl on the train who asked her, "Where are you going?" Tauba replied, "Where are YOU going?" The girl replied, "Khodoriv!" Tauba, with no idea where to go, replied, "What a coincidence. That's where I am going!"
.............In Khodoriv, she found a job working in a kitchen. Engineers who were building roads and bridges would eat at the cafeteria and Tauba was an assistant cook. She also stayed at the location, in a room attached to the kitchen. One day a man came to her and asked her, "Who are you?" The man was curious to learn more about Tauba. She and the man, Fritz Kwabus (Quabus), became good friends. Fritz was a German, probably around age 35, who was living in Breslau (which is now Wroclaw, Poland). He had a wife and daughter. The daughter was named Gisela. He was the head of the engineering company that was involved with local construction projects such as building bridges.
.............Tauba's boss in Khodorov said that he wanted to her an additional person to help her cook. Knowing this was not a good idea, she tried to dissuade him, but soon after a Ukrainian woman named Olga was hired. Olga took one look at Tauba and said, "She's a Jew! She's a Jew!" At this point, Tauba consulted Mr. Kwabus and asked him if he could take her away. She made up a story about why she had to leave. He probably knew her circumstance. Regardless, he complied, and took Tauba to a field and told her to meet him in front of the train station the town of Stryj in the morning. That night, Tauba slept in a shed. She had faith that he would arrive the next day, and he did. Mr. Kwabus took Tauba to a restaurant in Stryj and confronted her. "I don't care who or what you are," he said to her. "You're Jewish, yes?" he said. "It's not true!" she proclaimed. Admitting the truth would put her life in danger more than it was already. Mr. Kwabus accepted her story. While in Stryi, they walked down the main street, and Tauba witnessed Nazis murdering the Jews of Stryj. It was a horrifying sight. That evening, Fritz took her to a welding shop and locked her up for the night.
.............Convinced she may be in danger after the frightening scenes in Stryj, Tauba hitched a ride end ended up near Morshyn. She slept in a shed for the first night there. Tauba soon found a job in a laboratory at a German hospital. She was somewhat comfortable there. One day her co-worker asked her to go visit her grandmother in Stryj. They took the train. Before it left the station, Tauba began to sing a German song in Polish. A Polish military man came over and took her off of the train. She was surrounded by 10 Gestapo, both Polish and German, and they announced to a crowd that she was a Jew. This was in Stryj, after the train had stopped and she was escorted out by the military official. Then she was put into a small prison. The same Polish guard who took her off the train approached her the next morning and demanded, "Admit to me that you are a Jew. Do it!" He held up a loaded pistol to her right temple. She replied, "I am not a Jew! If you want to shoot me, then shoot me." She explained that she liked the melody of the song, and only knew it after writing it down in Polish and rehearsing it. This Pole thought that because she knew German she must be a Jew. Tauba was set free due to sheer willpower and the help of the Almighty.
.............In early 1943, she asked some troops in the area if they could tell her where their authority was. She wanted to approach them for a job. The Lieutenant of the traveling German unit was someone who, by coincidence, been treated by Tauba while she worked at the hospital in Morshyn. The Lieutenant, named Isselar (spelling?), allowed her to work for the unit. She prepared food, such as peeling carrots and potatoes, on a traveling kitchen wagon. The unit traveled all throughout Europe with stops in Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, and Austria between 1943 and 1945. On May 5, 1945, the Lieutenant explained to her that she no longer had to be scared of the bombs, and she saw the American/British troops liberating the area near Vienna. She was very scared to admit that she was Jewish. Who could you trust during the time period?
.............Tauba went with a co-worker, who was a cook, to his home town near Wiesbaden, Germany. Since she spoke German, she was hoping she could find some work there. She heard nothing about Jews for nearly a year. In February, 1946, she saw a newspaper ad -- very tiny -- about a Jewish organization in the area. She went there immediately. After a prolonged effort to prove she was, in fact, Jewish, Tauba was directed to the Displaced Persons Camp for refugees in Zeilsheim (near Frankfurt), Germany, where she met Judah Biterman, who was from a town near to her native Zamosc. They were married in 1946.
.............Tauba and Judah emigrated from Bremen to New York on the ship Marine Marlin in January/February of 1948. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen on November 25, 1953. She speaks about the Holocaust to audiences in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area. Her Holocaust survivor testimony is available at USHMM.
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............................... 4 Shlomo Fuks b: Jan. 1, 1920 in Zamosc, Poland d: Nov. 10, 1998 in West Hollywood, CA
.................................. + Fajga Krochmalnik b: 1920-1925 in Dubno, Ukraine d: Bef. 2000 in Ukraine
............................... 4 Udl "Ora" Fuks b: Oct. 29, 1921 in Zamosc, Poland d: March, 2006 in Milwaukee, WI
.................................. + Hemjia "Henry" Kozochowicz b: Oct. 15, 1910 in Poland d: Dec. 2, 2010 in Milwaukee, WI
............................... 4 Genia "Gitl" Fuks b: May 31, 1925 in Zamosc d: Feb. 2, 1998 in Los Angeles, CA
.................................. + Misha Begelfer b: March 2, 1928 in Europe d: Aug. 14, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA
............................... 4 Bella Fuks b: 1926 in Zamosc d: 2001 in Ukraine
.................................. + Zachar Szkolik b: in Ukraine d: 2001 in Ukraine
............................... 4 Slava Fuks b: private
.................................. + Sienia Reyzin b: private